ROTC units at Radcliffe and other women's colleges can be expected "in the near future," spokesmen for the Army and the Air Force said yesterday.
Brigadier General Turner C. Rodgers, Commandant of the Air Force ROTC at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., announced that the Air Force would begin ROTC for women at several universities this spring term and would expand them as quickly as possible to all coeducational schools already having an AFROTC unit.
"We need this program to fill our critical need for WAF officers," Rodgers said. He added that the program would eventually be the Air Force's principal source of women officers.
At the same time, Col. Luca C. McGrath, Deputy Commandant of the WACs, revealed that the Army had begun a similar program. "We have already enrolled 187 women, and expect to get many more," Col. McGrath said.
Four-Week Summer Camp
The Army program, she pointed out, would not operate through formal class-work, although women would be "encouraged to take Military Science courses." She added that the Army's program would be "operated on an individual, not college basis," although "we will, of course, try to get the women academic credit for any ROTC courses they take."
Both the Air Force and Army programs would require a four-week summer camp at a regular Army or Air Force base in the summer between the junior and senior years of college.
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